Online Advertising
Cydoor
Cydoor Desktop Media is an online Israeli
advertising
company. Cydoor originally placed ads only in software programs such as Kazaa, but has
now expanded into running ads on websites as an
advertising network.
Because of Cydoor's highly controversial practices of running ads in software
programs, Cydoor has been associated with
spyware.
Cydoor software
The Cydoor
software downloads advertisements from the Cydoor servers, to be displayed
in the Cydoor-supported software.
Cydoor consumes about 3.4MB of hard drive space, and cannot be uninstalled
using the Windows uninstaller. No uninstaller is provided. Cydoor is often
bundled with P2P filesharing programs such as KaZaA or eXeem.
It used to be that a user could uninstall Cydoor and continue to use the
program it came with, but that is sometimes no longer the case. Now Cydoor is
treated as a vital piece of software code by the parent program, and removal may
cause the program to stop working. The website's FAQ explains, "Our
components...are the main revenue generating components for our software
partners," as the way of explaining their supposed necessity.
The program has been known to cause problems in Windows, but the company
asserts that this is due to an old and
buggy
version of the software. They also claim not to harvest personal information
unless "the user voluntarily supplied it".
Removal
This software can be removed by most anti-spyware programs, such as Ad-Aware
and Spybot.
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